By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics There is perhaps no topic that has brought the worlds of math and practical construction so close together as the study of...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday July 30th, 2012 12:01 PM
Categories: Science | 26 Comments
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics A few weeks ago, I challenged readers to arrange six great circles so that every intersection of a pair of circles was...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday July 23rd, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | 3 Comments
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Although Math Mondays has featured mathematical clothing before, it turns out there is an entire subgenre of clothing and accessories featuring those...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday July 9th, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Science | 2 Comments
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Just suppose you wanted to make your own model of the Ungar-Leech map on the surface of a torus, like this one...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday July 2nd, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Science | 4 Comments
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Before we leave the topic of Sierpinski Tetrahedra, with which many Math Mondays have been concerned, I wanted to highlight the story...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday June 25th, 2012 12:00 PM
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By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics When last we left our intrepid hula-hoop-armed mathematical makers, they had just suffered a collapse of the Sierpinski tetrahedron midway between order...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday June 11th, 2012 12:00 PM
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By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics Math Mondays have so far featured a wide array of different items from which one can make a tremendous variety of geometric...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday June 4th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: Science | 7 Comments
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics MoMath colleague Dave Masunaga and I were chewing on some of the tasty macadamia nuts, while chewing on some interesting problems that...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday May 21st, 2012 12:00 PM
Continuing last Math Monday's theme of building polyhedra, let's turn to the opposite end of the spectrum from paper models: polyhedra so large and substantial that people can live in...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday May 14th, 2012 12:00 PM
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you’ve never made a set of the Platonic solids from paper, perhaps it’s time to try it. These shapes are the...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 30th, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: General, Science | 5 Comments
Here is a challenging star construction you can make from twelve playing cards. The underlying geometric form is the third stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron. However, there is a twist...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday April 2nd, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: General, Science | 4 Comments
Math Monday: Make a Marble Run
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday March 26th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: Science | 7 Comments
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